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It is hard to believe that this was our last full week of school for the year! This will be the LAST long update for the year (I promise!!). Please help your learners get any library books back to school! Here is a look at what we did this week and what is to come.

Monday May 30th-No school-Memorial Day weekend Wednesday June 1st-Field Day! Third grade will be participating in field day from 12:45-2:15pmMonday June 6th-Math Projects (Measurement and data due)Monday June 6th-Rumpus Performance- 1:30-2:15pm Monday June 6th: Book Fair! 7:30-10am and 2:00pm-4:00pmTuesday June 7th-Rumpus Performance 9:30-10:15amTuesday June 7th-Book Fair! 10:30-12:30 and 1:00-6:00pmWednesday June 8th-Staff vs. 5th grade kickball game from 1:15-2:15

Wednesday June 8th-10:30-12:30pm and 2:00pm-4:00pmThursday June 9th-Last day of school! Half day-dismissal at 12:20pm

Homework this weekend: Measurement and Data project work, final journal entry (3rd grade reflection), Book group work/reading group article work (Eerie Elementary will meet for the last time on Monday), Send Rumpus shirt to school (let me know if you would like to borrow one from school!) **We are finished with dictado for the year!

Other Important Information

Rumpus Costume Information: Students will need to wear a t-shirt with these specific colors for their roles in the play. The T-shirt needs to be clear of any writing (can be turn around or inside out so no writing is displayed). If you do not have a t-shirt of this specific color at home, please don't worry about running out and buying one, we have MANY extras from years past that learners can borrow (please let me know if your learner will need to borrow one).

Colors for Rumpus:Frog-greenToucan-Black Boa-GreenJaguar-orange, yellow or animal printSloth-gray Monkey-gray Shaman-whiteExplorers-white with khaki shortsAnts-red Storytellers-Dress clothes-idea is to look like news anchors :) *Black colored shorts or pants is best or any other dark colors for everyone except explorers.

Important Information about field day:

Students must wear tennis shoes! Please help remind them of this (no open toed shoes or sandals)

Students need to bring sunscreen from home and wear it, as the school cannot provide/share sunscreen.

Bring water bottle's

Math Projects: Learners are continuing to work hard on their measurement and data projects. Here is a short breakdown of what learners should have finished currently and be working on for next week:

Should be done with:

Employee Schedule

Time Story Problems (connected to hours of operation and employee schedule)

Menu's

Money Story Problems (connected to menu's)

Working on for next week:

Blueprint of business

Calculating area and perimeter for each room in their blue print

Three sentences about area and perimeter of their business

Literacy: This week in literacy we continued working on persuasive writing, reading examples of persuasive text and explored how to add strength in our writing through describing words and strong adjectives. We also discussed the different types of persuasive techniques you can use to appeal to your reader. Next week we will work on two short writing projects using our heredity monsters from science and then a piece to persuade other students to come to third grade :)

Social Studies: We have continued learning about South America through our time practicing Rumpus in the Rainforest and mini lessons with Ms. Cieslik and Ms. Schmitt's classes on Brazil, Patagonia and Peru. We will wrap these mini lessons by discussing the environmental issues currently being face by South America (melting of glaciers and deforestation of the Amazon Rainforest) and asking students to use their persuading techniques and skills in small groups to create informational posters in class prompting awareness and solutions to these issues.

Science: We wrapped our Heredity unit on Monday with our Heredity Unit Quiz. The students did a great job in this unit and on the final quiz!

Have a wonderful holiday weekend and please let me know if you have any questions,

Hi Families! It is finally starting to feel like we are on our way to summer with the beautiful weather we have had this week! We had a great trip to the UW this week (check the blog for some great pictures of our day! and thank you again to our chaperones that joined us!) and the learners are continuing to have a blast in gym with roller blading, our last day for rollerblading will be on Monday. Here is a short update of upcoming dates.

Important Upcoming dates:Monday May 23rd: Gym-bring protective gear *Last day of rollerblading in gym Monday May 23rd: Heredity Quiz Tuesday May 24th-MAP testing (Math sessions) 10:45-11:45am and 12:45-1:45Wednesday May 26th-Hoot permission slips due back at school *please check with your learner, these went home today. Thursday May 26th-All LMC books due back at school-I will send home notices for overdue items on Monday Thursday May 26th: Volunteer appreciation breakfastMonday May 30th-No school-Memorial Day weekend Monday June 6th-Rumpus Performance- 1:30-2:15pm Tuesday June 7th-Rumpus Performance 9:30-10:15am

Homework this weekend: Story problems for time for measurement and data project if not finished in class, journal, dictado, book group (Eerie meeting on Monday)

**Book groups will officially wrap up this next week and from there for the rest of the year we will work on guided reading with articles and other shorter texts**

Rumpus Costume Information: Students will need to wear a t-shirt with these specific colors for their roles in the play. The T-shirt needs to be clear of any writing (can be turn around or inside out so no writing is displayed). If you do not have a t-shirt of this specific color at home, please don't worry about running out and buying one, we have MANY extras from years past that learners can borrow (please let me know if your learner will need to borrow one).

Colors for Rumpus:Frog-greenToucan-Black Boa-GreenJaguar-orange, yellow or animal printSloth-gray Monkey-gray Shaman-whiteExplorers-white with khaki shortsAnts-red *Black colored shorts or pants is best or any other dark colors for everyone except explorers.

Dictado for next week:

“What are we going to do in math this week?” asked Kate. “This week we will review area and perimeter,” replied Ms.Triller. “I am so excited!” shouted Ethan.

Have a wonderful weekend and please let me know if you have any questions,